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cord-302667-ei151qpd	Sekar, Raghul	Challenges Faced by an Otolaryngology Resident During Covid-19 Pandemic: An Indian Perspective	2020-09-01		.txt	text/plain	1566	94	49	title: Challenges Faced by an Otolaryngology Resident During Covid-19 Pandemic: An Indian Perspective SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19 disease has brought tremendous strain on health care sectors around the world. Being a respiratory disease, COVID-19 has tremendous implications on the otolaryngology residency. Otolaryngology residents are dealing with great apprehension of getting infected while working with both COVID-19 and non-COVID patients. Outpatient and Inpatient care, elective and emergency surgeries which are a crucial part of the residency training have taken a back seat. This article enumerates the challenges faced by an otolaryngology resident during COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary care hospital in India. COVID-19 being primarily a respiratory disease, has tremendous implications in otolaryngology training and patient care. Surgical procedures in otolaryngology are associated with high risk of virus transmission due to the following reasons a. Otolaryngology residents have a high risk of contracting the disease during the continuing pandemic that has no sight in end.	./cache/cord-302667-ei151qpd.txt	./txt/cord-302667-ei151qpd.txt